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The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893, never online until 2020

WEDNESDAY, March 25, 2020
MEETING # 1553

***Note meeting to be held virtually via Zoom***

GRAHAM ANDREWS, West Virginia University
The Fold Illusion

DAVID CHU, Los Alamos National Lab
DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program: the MOSAiC Expedition

ALEXIS MYCHAJLIW, La Brea Tar Pits & Museum
“Tar pit” time capsules: reconstructing Trinidad’s Late Pleistocene ecosystems with fossils trapped in asphalt

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW

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Formal program at 8:00 p.m. EDT, show up with a drink of your choice at 7:30pm if you’re keen on socializing beforehand.

***Meeting will be held virtually via Zoom using the link below***
https://vccs.zoom.us/j/881922420

www.gswweb.org

WEDNESDAY, March 11, 2020
MEETING # 1552

***Note alternate location***

Alexander Morgan, SI National Air and Space Museum
Large alluvial fans on Mars: insights from remote sensing observations and field analogue studies

Kei Shimizu, Carnegie Institution of Science
Water in meteorites: a snapshot of water in the early Solar System

Daniel Rasmussen, SI National Museum of Natural History
The run-up to volcanic eruptions unveiled by forensic petrology

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW

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Refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Formal program at 8:00 p.m.

***American Geophysical Union Headquarters***
2000 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC

Our next meeting in a new location, the American Geophysical Union’s headquarters at 2000 Florida Ave., NW, Washington,DC 20009. If you would like to participate in the 7pm tour of AGU’s newly-renovated LEEDS-certified, net-zero building, you must sign up in advance, with this Google form.

If you only plan to attend the 8pm meeting, then you do not need to sign up.

AGU is located at 2000 Florida Ave, N.W. AGU strongly encourages the use of public transportation and ride sharing/carpooling. The nearest metro stop is Dupont Circle, on the Red Line; we are just about 3 blocks north of the station. The most convenient parking garage is located in the Universal Building and is accessible from two points: (1) Universal North, accessed from T Street, NW, across from the side entrance of the Hilton Washington, and (2) Universal South, accessed from Florida Avenue, NW, across from the front entrance of AGU. (best access for evening activities). There is some street parking for those who are resourceful; most is metered and/or has residential restrictions. Attached is a map showing the metro & parking locations.

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GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

Meeting Number 1551

John Wesley Powell Auditorium, Cosmos Club, 2170 Florida Ave NW Washington, DC

Wednesday, February 26, 2020; Refreshments 7:30 pm; Meeting 8:00 pm

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ADVAIT JUKAR, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History – Nineteenth century fossil hunting in the Indian Subcontinent.

JONATHAN TUCKER, Carnegie Institution of Science – The carbon footprint of oceanic volcanoes.

BEVERLY WALKER, National Science Foundation – Funding geoscience in Antarctica: the coldest, highest, driest, windiest continent on Earth.

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Future Meetings 2020: March 11, 25; April 29; May 13; Sept 9, 23; Oct 7; Nov 4; Dec 2.

Know someone who would enjoy GSW? Consider inviting a colleague or friend to the meeting.

The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893

WEDNESDAY, February 12, 2020

MEETING # 1550

Yasmina Martos, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Revealing geothermal heat flux in Earth’s polar regions – geodynamic evolution and impact on ice sheet dynamics

Chelsea Peters, University of Delaware 
Groundwater pumping and salinization risks in coastal aquifers

Kate Burgess, U.S. Naval Research Lab
Bits of the sun in my microscope: Finding preserved solar wind in space weathered lunar soil

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW

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Refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Formal program at 8:00 p.m.

John Wesley Powell Auditorium
2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC

WEDNESDAY, January 22, 2020
MEETING #1549

SALLY JUNE TRACY, Carnegie Institution for Science
Experimental shockwave studies of geological materials

STEVEN WHITMEYER, James Madison University
Geoscience Field Education in the 21st Century: Accessible and
Multidisciplinary

RYAN SINCAVAGE, Radford University
The geologist’s sandbox: Surface process and climate signals in
the sediments of an alpine basin on the Northern Patagonian Ice
Field, Chile

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TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
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Refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Formal program at 8:00 p.m.
John Wesley Powell Auditorium
2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC

The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893

WEDNESDAY, November 13, 2019
MEETING # 1547

The 2019 Bradley Lecture

R. Steven Nerem,
University of Colorado,
Measuring Sea Level Change from Space: What are the measurements telling us?

Abstract: Satellite altimetry (TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, and Jason-3) and satellite gravity (GRACE and GRACE Follow-On) measurements have provided a wealth of new information on how sea level has been changing over the last few decades. This is giving us important informations about the causes of sea level change and about how it will evolve in the future. This talk will review these satellite technologies, summarize the changes we have observed, and discuss what this tells us about future sea level change. Our future under climate-driven sea level rise is becoming clearer, but there are still important questions to be answered.

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TALK WILL BE ONE HOUR IN DURATION w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
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Refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Formal program at 8:00 p.m.
John Wesley Powell Auditorium
2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC

The Geological Society of Washington
founded 1893

WEDNESDAY, October 23, 2019
MEETING # 1546

SIOBHÁN COOKE,
The Johns Hopkins University
Primate Evolution at La Venta, Colombia

JORDEN HAYES,
Dickinson College
The Space Between: Porosity production in the critical zone

GRAHAM LEDERER & BILL BURTON,
U.S. Geological Survey
Powell 150, the Sesquicentennial Colorado River Exploring
Expedition, and the continued legacy of John Wesley Powell

TALKS WILL BE 20 MINUTES w/ QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW
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Refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Formal program at 8:00 p.m.
John Wesley Powell Auditorium
2170 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC

Meeting flyer to print & post at your institution